PLATE XIX. 



Figs, 1 fiud 2. — TJie general appearance of a large city in Korea. Tai-ku 

 i'M B\i) on the Seoul-Fusau railway and high road is the foiu'th 

 largest city of the peninsula and the largest in south Korea, 

 having a population numbering 15814. The city lies in a dry 

 sandy depression at the east foot of a hill of the ' red marls,' from 

 which, we took the panoramic view, the northern half is in the 

 upper picture and the southern half in the lower. The south is 

 closed in by the meridional fault-scarp of tlio ' red marl forma- 

 tion ' which we passed at O-dong. To the northeast the shar]i 

 oblique ridge of the Avell-knowu Phal-kong-san (1188 ni) screens 

 the Tai-ku plain from the north wind, the lower two-thirds of the 

 mountain being buff-colored masanite thinly covered with pines, 

 while the upper third is capped with black shales and marls of the 

 Upj)3r Kyöüg-sang formation. I touched here on March 8 th, 1901, 

 which happened to be a festival day. All the white-clothed citizens 

 assembled on a southern hill (at the right of the lower picture) to 

 see a grand game of tug-of-Avar (if|^ ^) which was honoured by 

 the presence of tlie high magistrate or Karii-sä of South Kyüng- 

 sang-Do and his whole snite including their wives. The two-storey 

 tile-roofed houses are official buildings. See page 80. 



